Core members

Core Members of TWISC League

Der-Tsai Lee
Most Recent Engagement
  • Head of TWISC Advisory Board
  • Distinguished Research Fellow, Academia Sinica
  • President, Association for Algorithms and Computation Theory, Taipei, Taiwan (2017/2–present)
  • Senior Advisor, National Security Council (~2019/5), National Security Council, Taipei, Taiwan (2016/6–present)
  • Distinguished Research Chair Professor (~2019/4), National Taiwan University, Dept. CSIE, Taipei, Taiwan (2015/8–present)
  • Member, Council of Academia Sinica (~2020/4), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (2014/5–present)
Research Interests

Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Computational Geometry, Web-based Computing, Software Security, Algorithm Visualization, Bioinformatics, Digital Libraries.

Yen-Nun Huang
Most Recent Engagement
  • Director of Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica
  • Deputy Executive Secretary, Board of Science and Technology, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (2011/3–2015/8)
  • President/GM, VeeTIME Corp., Taiwan (2008/10–2011/3)
  • Executive VP, Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan (2007/3–2008/10)
  • Executive Director/Director, AT&T Labs, Communication Software Research Center, United States (2004/3–2007/3)
  • Distinguished Research Fellow, Academia Sinica
Research Interests

Dependable Computing, security, and privacy, fault tolerance, innovative multimedia services, mobile communication, IPTV, P2P

Yuh-Jye Lee
Most Recent Engagement
  • CEO of TWISC
  • Vice Dean, College of Science (Aug. 2017- Now)
  • Professor, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, (Feb. 2016 – Now)
  • Professor, Institute of Data Science and Engineering, College of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung Univ.
  • Research Fellow, Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica (Joint appointment)
Research Interests

Machine Learning, Data Science and Information security, Intrusion /Anomaly Detection, IoT Data Analytics, and Its Applications

Bo-Yin Yang
Most Recent Engagement
  • Director of Cryptography Lab, Academia Sinica
  • Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, IIS, Taiwan (2011/1–present)
  • Professor, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Department of Mathematics, Taiwan (2006/2–2006/7)
  • Associate Professor, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Department of Mathematics, Taiwan (1992/8–2006/1)
  • Postdoc, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Institute of Mathematics, Taiwan (1992/1–1992/7)
Research Interests

Applied Cryptography
Combinatorics and Analysis of Algorithms

Shi-Cho Cha
Most Recent Engagement
  • Director of TWISC@NTUST
  • Professor, National Taiwan University of Science and Technilogy
Research Interests

Security Management, IT Organization change management and Value Realization 、Project Management、 Distributed System

Jung-Shian Li
Most Recent Engagement
  • Director of TWISC@NCKU
  • Professor, Institute of Computer and Communication Engineering
Research Interests

Communication Network Agreement, Communications Engineering, Information Security Product Testing, Network Security

Sying-Jyan Wang
Most Recent Engagement
  • Director of TWISC@NCHU
Research Interests

Digital Testing and Testable Design, VLSI Design, Fault-Tolerant Computing, Computer Architecture & Algorithm, Computer-Aided Design, Logic Design, Physical Design: Floorplanning/Placement, Routing

Chin-Laung Lei
Most Recent Engagement
  • Dicrector of TWISC@NTU
  • Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University
Research Interests

Network Security, Cryptography, Distributed Computing, Internet Technologies, Operating Systems

Hung-Min Sun
Most Recent Engagement
  • Director of TWISC@NTHU (2018~)
  • Director of Information Security Research Center, NTHU (2017/6~)
  • Director and Professor, Institute of Information Systems and Applications, NTHU (2017/8/1~)
  • Preliminary Director and Professor, Institute of Information Security, NTHU (2018/9/1~2019/7/31)
  • Professor, Department of Computer Science, NTHU (2008/08/01~)
  • Joint Research Fellows, The Research Center for Information Technology Innovation (CITI), ACADEMIA SINICA, Taiwan (2016/04/01~2018/07/31)
  • Vice President of the Chinese Cryptology and Information Security Association
Research Interests

Information Security, Fintech, BlockChain, Automatic Trading

Shi-Chun Tsai
Most Recent Engagement
  • Director of TWISC@NYCU
  • Professor, Department of Computer Science, NYCU
  • Director, Information Technology Service Center, NYCU
Research Interests

Computational Complexity, Algorithms, Software Defined Networking, Machine learning algorithms, Cryptography, Combinatorics and Coding theory

Chun-I Fan
Most Recent Engagement
  • Center Director, TWISC@NSYSU, National Sun Yat-sen University (July 2018 – Now)
  • Dean, College of Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University (August 2020 – Now)
  • Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University (February 2019 – Now)
  • Chairman, Chinese Cryptology and Information Security Association (May 2018 – Now)
  • Center Director, Information Security Research Center, National Sun Yat-sen University (August 2018 – Now)
  • Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University (February 2010 – Now)
  • Chief Executive Officer, Telecom Technology Center (February 2019 – July 2020)
Research Interests

Cryptographic Protocols, Applied Cryptology, Information Security

TWISC Project Research Fellows

Jiun-Peng Chen
Most Recent Engagement
  • Lead of Cryptography Lab, Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica
  • Lead of Advanced Research Team, TWISC, Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica
Research Interests

design of passive key components in wireless communication, and microwave and hardware measurement analysis

Laurent Lin
Most Recent Engagement
  • Member of Advanced Research Team, TWISC, Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica
  • Engineer, HTE USA INC., Farmingdale, New York (01-03)
  • Engineer, E-Travel Waltham, Mass (00-01)
  • Engineer, Delta Small-Business MYOB.
  • Engineer, AT&T, Middletown, New Jersey (99-00)
  • Engineer, AT&T proprietary INCS (Integrated Network Connection Service), MOTOROLA, Libertyville, Illinois (96-97)
Research Interests

Secure messaging in a limited-resource operating environment with a personal information protection scheme
Public key cryptography applications in mobile computing

Po-Hua Lin
Most Recent Engagement
  • Member of Advanced Research Team, TWISC, Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica
  • Adjunct assistant professor, Taiwan Police College, Taiwan (2016/8–2017/2)
  • Assistant professor, Overseas Chinese University Taiwan (2014/8–2016/8)
  • Adjunct lecturer, Nanhua University, Taiwan (2010/8–2014/7)
Research Interests

Criminal law, Cyber Law, Crminology

Alex Chang
Most Recent Engagement
  • Member of Advanced Research Team, TWISC, Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica
  • Assistant professor (2014.8-2017.7), Information management department, Shu-Zen Junior College of Medicine and Management
  • Section Manager (2001-2014), Research center, Formosa Advanced Technologies Co.
Research Interests

Mobile Security, Penetration Test, Programming, Operating system

Shih Chang Hsu
Most Recent Engagement
  • Member of Advanced Research Team, TWISC, Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica
  • Assistant Research Fellow, Commerce Development Research Institute  
  • Associate Research Fellow, Taiwan Institute of Economic Research 
  • Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Administration, National Taiwan Univerity of Science and Technology
Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence Applications; Analysis, Simulation and Prediction in Industry and Economics; Development in Artificial Intelligence Computing Platform, Prediction Models, Expert Models, Open Source and Crawlers 

Chun Neng Peng
Most Recent Engagement
  • Member of Advanced Research Team, TWISC, Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica
  • Adjunct Research Fellow, Chung Hua Institution for Economic Research
  • Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Finance, Dong Hua University
  • Adjunct Lecturer, the Culinary Institute of Taiwan
Research Interests

Economic Analysis, Optimization for Information Management Platform and Business Model, Risk Analysis